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How I Learned To Stop Suppressing And Love the Chainsaw The director of this years Chainsaw Awards reveals what went on behind the curtain. By Xanthe Pajarillo · @xanthepajarillo · April 20, 2021, 4:45 PM EDT The fearless leader, Xanthe Pajarillo! “What was it like directing the Chainsaw Awards?” Upon hearing this question, I’m flooded with a slew of images: all-nighters with editor Shaman Marya and sound designer/post mixer Saranya Nayak for editing ...

Heres All 13 LGBTQ+ Films Premiering at Sundance 2021 By Mey Rude The Sundance Film Festival, which starts today, is one of the most prestigious film festivals in the world. While this year no one’s flying to Utah — and having to bundle up for all the snow, — there are still several great looking LGBTQ+ films debuting in its virtual iteration. Everything from Call Me By Your Name has screened here. Will any of this year’s films join the history of great queer movies to debut at the fes...

Sundance Film Festival will let you hang out in space next to the ISS (apparently) The fests New Frontier program -- always packed with virtual reality and other tech-driven storytelling -- is pulling out all the stops next month during Sundances mostly virtual festival. Listen - 08:13 Sundance typically takes place in Park City, Utah.  Getty Images The Sundance Film Festival is going more virtual tha...

Together Together starring Ed Helms are among 72 features selected for 2021 Sundance Film Festival, which runs online and in select US arthouse venues from January 28-February 3. The line-up, announced on Tuesday (December 15), includes One For The Road, Thai filmmaker Baz Poonpiriya’s follow-up to Bad Genius; Edgar Wright’s music documentary The Sparks Brothers Land; Ben Wheatley’s virus horror In The Earth; The Roots drummer Questlove’s documentary Summer Of Soul; and Kevin Macd...

Save this story for later. When the Sundance Film Festival kicks off on January 28, 2021, in Park City, Utah, there won’t be a long line of people standing outside the Eccles Theater, watching their breath catch in the cold winter air—and Main Street surely won’t be packed with revelers and sponsor activations, either. Instead, on account of the coronavirus pandemic, next year’s Sundance will actually expand amid the contraction of live events. Rather than relying solely on in-person ex...

Here are the 72 feature films in the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, which will mostly screen online The festival will be shorter with limited in-person events, to avoid spreading COVID-19. (Daniel Power | courtesy of Focus Features / Sundance Institute) Robin Wright directs and stars in the drama "Land." Its an official selection of the Premieres section at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. | Updated: Jan. 5, 2021, 12:33 a.m. With everything that will be different about the 2021 Sundance Film ...